Ethics and Character of the Physician - CPVL015
Title: Etika a osobnost lékaře
Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2023
Semester: both
Points: 1
E-Credits: 1
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 0/15, C [HS]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (15)
summer:unknown / unknown (15)
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: MUDr. Tereza Pinkasová
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The course offers students ethical themes that are directly related to the personality of a medical student and physician. Students will be acquainted with topics of personality ethics and with overlapping topics of ethics and psychology.
Last update: Pinkasová Tereza, MUDr. (04.12.2019)
Aim of the course -

The aim of the course is to enable students to perceive their attitude towards medicine, patients and themselves.

Last update: Pinkasová Tereza, MUDr. (04.12.2019)
Course completion requirements -

attendance at 6 seminars out of 7 + comment in the application Výuka

A comment in Výuka application can be added to any teaching unit. The student chooses the topic that appeals to him most and writes a commentary of at least 200 words. The form of comment is free.

Last update: Pinkasová Tereza, MUDr. (04.12.2019)
Literature -

HASS, Aaron: Moral Intelligence

LE FANU, James: The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine

ARISTOTLE: Ethics Nicomachean

Last update: Pinkasová Tereza, MUDr. (04.12.2019)
Teaching methods -

Powerpoint presentation (introduction to the topic, basic context) with discussion, discussion in small groups of students, online comments in Výuka application

Last update: Pinkasová Tereza, MUDr. (04.12.2019)
Syllabus -

1. Ethics of Medical Studies: cheating during study and examinations, aversion of students of other disciplines towards medical students and vice versa
2. Personality of the Medical Student: motivation to study medicine, change of empathy during medical studies, choice of medical specialization
3. Personality of the Physician: physician's ethos, maturity, physician's virtues, moral responsibility, perfectionism, narcissism, physician's position of power
4. Physician and Society: Development of the Medical Profession and Ethics, Doctor-Patient Relationship in the 21st Century, Disappointed Physicians and Demanding Patients
5. Ethics of the doctor-patient relationship: interest and disinterest in the patient, the need for the doctor's success, the boundaries of helping professions
6. Responsibility and Ethics: selfmedication, promise of secrecy and the Internet
7. Moral intelligence: how to cultivate good in us, ethics of virtue, ethical inspiration

Last update: Pinkasová Tereza, MUDr. (04.12.2019)
Entry requirements -

interest in ethical self-reflection

Last update: Pinkasová Tereza, MUDr. (04.12.2019)